Player Watch #31: Josh Goater - re-signed until the end of 2026

[glenn2479]

‘Comfortable at the level’ would seem to me to be a disservice to the young man. He looks like a future star. Size, pace and his handballs hit the chest of the teammate. Where the hell did he learn that!!! Great to see.

 

[DesertRoo]

Playing on a wing?
Going to such a mismatch for a lot of players..

 

[Billy Not Really]

He looks really good on a centre wing I'd keep him there, let him and Scott/Stevo own the wings.

 

[JUST NORTH]

With his size, speed and agility, how long before Clarko gives in to the temptation to throw him in the middle?

Imagine him, LDU and JHF monstering opposition centre square set ups.

This

 

[shinboner magic]

I’ll go there again, don’t you worry.

Yeah I’m with you

Look back in 10 yrs time and JHF , Curtis and goater might be the best draft we’ve ever had

 

[ferball]

Hey Micky we’ve been here before - gloating on the highway robbery with Clarke , EVW , will Walker and the like.

Every one of those guys you mentioned was drafted later than Goat and JHF. They are all solid second rounders, ranked there for a reason.

Curtis is the fifth ranked player for his age by AFL rankings (JHF is third). In his first season. None of those other players achieved that either. (He and Eddie Mazda both went 10-20 picks behind where they could have gone if they'd come from somewhere other than the Jets too.)

 

[Whippet1]

Tbh I’m more used to North debutantes taking about 5 years to look comfortable at senior level. This guy looks like he’s played 100 games. Very encouraging.

 

[shinboner magic]

Tbh I’m more used to North debutantes taking about 5 years to look comfortable at senior level. This guy looks like he’s played 100 games. Very encouraging.

And with the build of a rake

 

[RossHenshaw]

And with the build of a rake

He just looks like a future 250 gamer . Almost Clarko era @ the Hawks type of player they would go for or produce .
Great run , raking kick & skill .
He’s a right foot Isaac Smith copy .

 

[AGC]

Yeah mate, I was pretty high on him - his ceiling is one of the highest in the draft.

He's raw, but has so much to work with.

Based of what you've seen in the VFL and then yesterday; would you hold your view of him being in the top 5-10? I've watched a few VFL games, and his ability to accumulate around the ground seems to have got steadily better, probably as you said, a sign of continually improving endurance.

I'm bullish!

 

[Mixed Results]

Even if he had a quiet game, I think I still would have been blown away by his athletic profile. It was my first time seeing him in person and it was absurd for a kid who had only recently turned 19. He is a freak in every positive sense of the word. The fact that he showed multiple flashes of instinctive football ability is just the cherry on top.

This kid has all of the tools to be a star. I'm beyond excited to see how he develops.

 

[Liam Boy]

looks like he could be the player we hoped Shaun Atley

18

Shaun Atley

Age

33

Ht

189cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.3

4star

K

8.5

3star

HB

8.8

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.2

4star

MG

273.1

4star

D

15.0

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

7.1

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

2.0

3star

MG

246.4

4star

D

13.6

4star

K

6.2

3star

HB

7.4

5star

M

1.6

2star

T

3.0

5star

would be. Already a better decision maker.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

With his size, speed and agility, how long before Clarko gives in to the temptation to throw him in the middle?

Imagine him, LDU and JHF monstering opposition centre square set ups.

It’s tempting but we need quick receivers on the outer to capitalise on our midfield dominance. Apart from black holes across CHF and CHB, the wings have suffered for not having players there who can repeat sprint, be the lead up marker on kick ins and feed the ball effectively to forward 50.

CT has had an awesome year on the wing, but he gets through on smarts not speed/power. Having someone like Goats who could actually develop into an awesome wing is something North haven’t had since Sam Gibson, and he didn’t have any of the offensive weapons Goater possesses.

It’s tempting, but think of the whole unit. Simpkin will have a huge year with LDU, Cunnington, JHF, Powell, WillPhill and Jed.

We need more good players being developed on the wings. I would love it if we draft a Sheezel/Tatsas which will give us the following on the wings/defensive sweeper makeup:

Taylor, Goater, McDonald Sheeze/Tsats

 

[Caracas]

Josh would be waking up happy today. He’s just had his first opportunity and he grabbed it with both hands. Alastair is, most likely, very impressed.


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[Caracas]

His coolness under pressure was never more evident than when he was hemmed in close to the boundary in the second quarter. He just faked and turned back and popped the ball to a free player. No other player on our team managed anything close to that throughout the day.


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[Frank Thring]

looks like he could be the player we hoped Shaun Atley would be. Already a better decision maker.

He's already had a better career.

 

[giantroo]

Goater's kick



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[koshari]

giantroo - can we get a GIF of The Goat burning Mac Andrew (?) off on the wing.

Finally a North player looking back and then just turning the jets on!

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Said to the wife "hes got wheels" when he did that.

 

[koshari]

Schimma like wing running.

 

[leighlee13]

Goater's kick



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Showed great composure and good decision making.

 

[justroyal]

Any idea why we had to wait so long to see him out there?

 

[Souup]

Based of what you've seen in the VFL and then yesterday; would you hold your view of him being in the top 5-10? I've watched a few VFL games, and his ability to accumulate around the ground seems to have got steadily better, probably as you said, a sign of continually improving endurance.

I'm bullish!

Yeah definitely would hold a top 5 opinion on him from his draft. With more project types like him, I give them ~3 years before I get impatient with them and start to consider that I may have been wrong and they're probably not going to be as good as I thought.

For us, thankfully, he got better with every game at VFL level and had a very solid first game.

 

[CURVE]

Both Leigh Montana and David King were very impressed with his first game on First Crack this evening, they showed and commented on his first kick in AFL saying it was very brave but well executed and set up an excellent goal. Kingy's finished the little 90 second segment with a nice tongue-in-cheek comment, "I'll be surprised if he is not a part of our 2023 premiership team." which i found amusing, and hope is comes true.

In fact Joey is quite positive about our under 24's saying that there are around 18 that will be good starting point for Clarkson as he rebuilds the list. Didn't name them but I'm guessing Larkey, Zurhaar, Curtis, Taylor, Scott, Bonar, Perez, Thomas, Coleman-Jones, Horne-Francis, Goater, Stephenson, Phillips, Powell, Dawson, Davies-Uniacke, Young and Ford.

 

[muttley45]

Both Leigh Montana and David King were very impressed with his first game on First Crack this evening, they showed and commented on his first kick in AFL saying it was very brave but well executed and set up an excellent goal. Kingy's finished the little 90 second segment with a nice tongue-in-cheek comment, "I'll be surprised if he is not a part of our 2023 premiership team." which i found amusing, and hope is comes true.

In fact Joey is quite positive about our under 24's saying that there are around 18 that will be good starting point for Clarkson as he rebuilds the list. Didn't name them but I'm guessing Larkey, Zurhaar, Curtis, Taylor, Scott, Bonar, Perez, Thomas, Coleman-Jones, Horne-Francis, Goater, Stephenson, Phillips, Powell, Dawson, Davies-Uniacke, Young and Ford.

If you specifically want 18, i would replace Bonar with Bergman

 

[JGreezy]

I almost fell out of my chair when he accelerated before that missed goal. Lightning fast.